Final Weave
- Summer Hope
- Feb 16, 2018
- 3 min read
For my final weaves for my architecture project I have used an 8-shaft loom consisting of two colours; white and blue, the blue coloured yarn I have dyed in the dye kitchen using 0.252 grams of dye overall, 50% of this being an indigo blue coloured dye and the other 50% being a silver grey coloured dye, also with this, 6.3 grams of salt to create our light blue colour. I've used 126 grams of yarn for my warp, using an ecru cotton, dying exactly half of this the blue colour stated above, this warp I planned to be 48 ends per inch, making it quite a wide warp. I've chosen to use the blue as well as the white in my warp as I feel it can look quite plain purely being white, especially as my buildings I'm focusing on for this weave are quite block sand squared shape having the second colour within my warp helps to portray this pattern.
The process of setting the warp up was the main part that took up the longest amount of time, once we'd winded it on and into it's correct form for the 48ends per inch, we then had to put it through the spreader to our correct plan for our weave, once we done that we could then wind it onto the loom itself, tying it onto the back and using the two wooden sticks placed within the warp, these were used to separate the yarn into their correct order. winding this on was the first big step as each time we winded it onto the back, we had to loosen and untangle the yarn so that there was no knots or tangles and so we could make sure the tension was the same all the way through an because we put the white yarn onto a separate part of the loom than the blue one we had to do this twice. Once these were winded on, the next step was threading through, we used a straight draft of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, so pulling strand by strand individually through each hole, once this had been finished the whole way through, we could then thread it through the beater, with this section we pulled through three threads of yarn for each slot of the beater. This was threading through finished, the only part left was to grab small sections of the yarn and tie it to the front stick of the loom, trying to get the same tightness and tension of the yarn throughout the warp.
These images above are the stages of threading through in the first image and tying it onto the front stick in the second image.
I started off by creating several small samples on my weave by using certain patterns, using specific colours; orange, blue, grey, pink, yellow and gold.
These samples helped me to visualise what each pattern looked like and to create certain patterns of my own, using a repeating method to make it look neat and ordered.
My main two final samples for my weave project are made up of different patterns, texture and colour, representing texture and pattern of my chosen buildings:
For both samples I used an ordered pattern to an extent as I did make small changes during this to make them look more exciting, throughout my samples I used specific weave patterns so that they all would link together, however, look different. I've used different colours with both of these final samples to enable that I portray the colours used within my sketchbook, however separating these has meant that they don't look identical or too crammed with lots of colour.
Overall, I am pleased with these samples and final pieces as I feel they link and reflect my sketchbook work and chosen buildings, however I feel that I could have made alternative samples for experimentation and tried out other patterns within the weave.
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